CrossOver does not show above games in fullscreen mode

[lacymorrow]

Windows attempts to hide overlays on fullscreen mode, requiring windowed fullscreen to work with CrossOver.

[marcmascarell]

This is indeed a big issue for some apps... Give this a look https://github.com/hiitiger/gelectron

[lacymorrow]

gelectron looks very cool and very similar to what I'm designing, although I'm attempting to make the 'injection' invisible on load and keep this app cross-platform

[repo-ranger]

⚠️ This has been marked to be closed in 7 days.

[lacymorrow]

This may actually be near-impossible for Electron apps without some sort of injection method, and then may be detected by anti-cheat systems. Unless someone wants to investigate using native modules to handle this, it will be a wontfix.

Related: #26

[benjaminaudet]

Hi!
Did you already try this : electron/electron#10078 (comment)

[lacymorrow]

This is fixed in the latest version 🙂

[benjaminaudet]

I am currently using the 1.0.3 and it's not working with the fullscreen of the game Rust :(

[lacymorrow]

@benjaminaudet What OS?
Try the latest version as I've made a few updates

[benjaminaudet]

Windows 10
Still not working with the version 1.0.8 (I built it myself)

[lacymorrow]

Yep, unfortunately this is a limitation of Electron, GPU-accelerated programs (especially Vulkan), and probably anti-cheat systems. It sucks but until someone can offer me a valid cross-platform method of getting above fullscreen windows, I don't plan to ever support it

(because I am not going to write and support a native extension myself)

[ro31337]

valid cross-platform method

There can't be valid cross-platform method because of specifics of the problem. It's better to start supporting it for one platform with "not implemented" fallback for other platforms.

[lacymorrow]

Fortnite has updated the way they display as well and is no longer showing in windowed-fullscreen mode either :/